Int'l community 'failed to give good test' on pandemic: Erdoğan

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on June 18 warned against "vaccine nationalism" and use of it for "policy dictation" in interstate relations.

"It is important not to allow vaccine nationalism. It is wrong to use it as a tool of blackmail, pressure, and policy dictation," Erdoğan said addressing to the opening ceremony of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum.

Turkey will share its indigenous vaccine against COVID-19 with "all the humanity" when it gets ready for use, he added.
Erdoğan recalled that Turkey has sent medical supplies to 158 countries and 12 organizations as part of efforts to fight against the pandemic, the president said noting that Ankara also provided asylum seekers access to health services.

He emphasized that the World cannot find solutions to today's problems with the habits of the past and adding that the main structures on which the global system is built are part of the problem, not the solution, in its current form.
Erdoğan said the international community 'failed to give good test' in managing pandemic.

World bigger than five

In other remarks, Erdoğan has reiterated his long-standing motto of "the world is bigger than five" in reference to the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. "190 countries cannot be left to the mercy of five nations," Erdoğan stated, repeating the need for a complete overhaul of the UN Security Council and the world system.

The continuation of this unjust system will create more conflicts and disagreements, he said, suggesting a more inclusive UN Security Council. The current members of the Security Council do not want to share their privileged status he stated, "We believe the discussion on Turkey over its axis is a result of the disturbance...